She nods. "But backups don't need to be perfect, yeah? They just need to save your life and recover your primary if it's still intact. Knives, picks, axes, bloody tonnes of rope, book o' knots, book identifying plants and fungi, bloody fucking mundane first aid for the shite too cursed to bloody heal..."

She nods along cooperatively. 

"Having backups can be quite useful, yes." 

"Say... 100 ft of 1/2 inch rope, a backpack, 6 knives, a pick, an axe, a basic reference book on knots and the flora of the region around Xazar's temple, a first aid kit, a set of six gas masks, a foldable pole, a towel, a map, a notebook, a few pens and two wand-blanks..." 

She hums gently. 

"I believe I can fit that in narrowly - the rest of the allotment would go to petty cash, unless you have something else in mind?" 

She nods, making notes, then looks up suddenly. "Can you get me photos and map pins of alleys near useful supply stores in apparation range? Case we need other shite? Or enough lead-time to scout 'em?"

"Photography hasn't been spread widely enough for that sort of reference to commonly exist. I can include a basic map of a relatively nearby town, however, and you have three days before the deadline of Xazar's release for gaining additional supplies, if you believe that the best use of your time." 

"Probably I just try t'eye a few places while I'm gathering other things before the party shows up. It's not the most important thing, just one more precaution."

She nods. 

More notes.

"D'you know where the cholera body is being kept before the burial?"

"I believe you misread the mission description - he is to die in a day from the point of insertion, absent intervention? But beyond that, I can look into giving you resources on what amenities around the area, which should be reasonably indicative." 

"Oh huh. Yeah, I did." She frowns and considers. "I could pull the traveling witch routine, whip up some oral rehydration solution. Can I get powder packets of ORS on my equipment allotment there, or is that ruled out by all the processing they don't have yet in Taramel?"

"Anything anachronistic is off the table, but for example, quantities of salt, sugar and water sufficient for a simple approximation would be feasible." 

"Okay, that'll do. Maybe throw in a glazed wooden cup that happens to have markings for appropriate measurements. And if I don't manage it and he dies anyway, I'll transfigure an equivalent mass of water into a replacement body for them to bury, and take the original out several miles away and burn it."

"Reasonable enough." 

"Palpatine's gonna be tricky."

"Dealing with those sort of... 'prepackaged preparation' powers always are, especially when the goal is something as direct as elimination of their user is your goal." 

"Too true. What I really need there is precog-blocking..."

"Perhaps. Mastery of the force also comes with some degree of enhanced senses and empathic awareness as well, which limits somewhat the options you have for simple surprise, and the sort of person who can succeed with those sorts of 'grand plots' often have a certain degree of luck, too, which hardly helps matters." 

"Does he still give public outdoor speeches at this point?"

"I believe he focuses more on speeches within the political sphere, rather than outdoors persay, though I'd expect that he does some."

"Are a hypersonic sniper rifle and a magazine of beskar bullets something I could fit into an upgraded equipment allotment?"

"I believe so - though it would certainly require the maximum level." 

"Combine that with sniper training, and that's a start. Do you have any precog-blocking stealth solutions?"

"There's a handful of more indirect magical solutions possible through more general skillsets, but the most canonical solution would be anti-scrying." 

"How many tokens'll that run me?"

"Five for a considerable degree of resistance, or ten for immunity, at least to what you'll find within the scope of these missions." 

She hums. "Two for the beskar sniper kit, three for superhuman sniper skills fit to guarantee a hit at that range, ten to make sure he doesn't see me coming, five to spare. That's another mission where I could really use a ten-and-under as a buffer to free up the whole budget. Got any ideas other than psychic paper for the last five?"